I missed this week’s Spoonflower challenge by about 2 minutes. I felt sad, but then I felt OK. I had considered stopping (or just entering the ones that particularly appealed to me) recently, and was really only doing it because I had put ‘enter every Spoonflower challenge’ on my 2025 bingo card. I started the year really into the challenges, spending lots of time sketching and drawing and taking time putting the pattern together. But it became a thing to tick off, rather than to enjoy and dig deeply into. I am just starting something else (will be able to say more in August) that will involve making a lot of illustrations and patterns within themes and trends and that will be more important and build up my practice and skills much more than fortnightly competitions.
So I am accepting that I missed the deadline for a reason and that it was a message from the universe not to do things just to tick them off on a list, but because I really want to or because they are really doing me good in some way.
Today I will be taking Jiji to the vet for her health check. Then I have a work call and will be mostly checking proofs today. And our eldest comes back from two weeks in Serbia, today, too, so I am looking forward to hearing about her trip. And cooking aubergine pasta for her.